CCTV News: The 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference opened in Shanghai on July 6, attracting more than 400 exhibitors, and the number of exhibitors and exhibition area reached the highest ever. The conference will last for three days, during which a number of thematic forums and special exhibitions will be held, and relevant competitions and awards will be organized and intelligent application experiences will be organized.
Ning Wanting, reporter of the main station: This is the Shanghai World Expo Center, and on the morning of July 6, the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference officially kicked off here. With the theme of "Intelligent Connected World, Generating the Future", this year's conference focuses on ten cutting-edge trends such as big models, brain-like intelligence, smart chips, robots, and meta-universes, and more than 1,400 heavyweight guests at home and abroad, including Turing Award and Nobel Prize winners, will discuss this. In addition to various thematic forums, the conference also organized special exhibitions, related competitions and awards, and intelligent application experience.
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2023 has three highlights. First, the interactive experience has been upgraded again, and intelligent application scenarios have been further expanded. This conference specially launched the "AI Digital Realm Roaming" 9-grid tour. As the name implies, relying on a series of cutting-edge technologies such as the latest AR, VR, MR and digital human, it provides people with 9 immersive virtual and real symbiotic experiences from the two dimensions of the physical world and the digital world.
Use AI technology to hold an AI conference, here, in addition to taking a group photo combining the virtual and real world, you can also taste a cup of AI metaverse coffee, draw an AI intelligent picture, create an AI digital avatar, and even experience a real-time shuttle tour of the sub-venue, etc., as if you are in the future world of science fiction movies.
The second highlight of this year's conference is that the number of exhibitors and exhibition area have reached the highest ever. The 50,000-square-meter World Expo exhibition covers four major sections: intelligent terminals, application empowerment, cutting-edge technology and core technology. There are more than 400 exhibitors, more than 50 excellent start-ups, more than 30 new products will be launched for the first time, and more than 20 robots will be unveiled on site.
The third highlight of the conference is to pay attention to the landing of scene applications, the docking of industrial demand and the development of industrial talents. The conference invited top universities, scientific research institutions, investment institutions and relevant representatives from all walks of life at home and abroad to have in-depth exchanges and show the breakthrough results of innovative application landing. At the same time, a number of innovative incubation technology enterprises will be invited to participate in the exhibition, more than 100 procurement visiting groups will be formed, and more than 20 buyer matching meetings will be created, and tens of billions of procurement needs will be released on site, providing exhibitors with a more accurate business cooperation platform. During the conference, a number of talent forums and talent recruitment will be held to help the development of industrial talents.
Since 2018, the World Artificial Intelligence Conference has been successfully held for six consecutive years. Over the past six years, the conference has gathered cutting-edge ideas, technologies and industrial trends in the field of global artificial intelligence to help the healthy innovation and development of artificial intelligence. At this moment, the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference has officially opened, and we also wish this conference to play a greater role in promoting the development of the digital economy empowered by artificial intelligence, exploring new formats of future industries, and laying out new tracks for future industries.
Source: CCTV